A high pressure system, called a "heat dome," hovering over much of the Middle East has made extremely high temperatures even harder to endure.
In the wake of last week's arson attack by Jewish extremists, which killed an Arab toddler and critically injured his brother and parents, Israel reinstated administrative detention.
More than 300,000 Americans die of lung disease each year, making it the nation's third-leading killer. Now, however, there's new hope for the people who desperately need lung transplants, based on a biological fluke.
An intense summer heat wave has a lot of Israelis staying inside as much as possible.
Earlier this week, Israeli airstrikes targeted two sites in Syria, one close to the Lebanese border, according to Arab media.
Israeli forces are on high alert Friday after Hamas called for a day of fury to avenge an arson attack in an Arab village that killed a toddler and injured four others, two critically.
Two of the five suspects questioned in connection with the arson attack on the Church of the Multiplication last month have been indicted, the Shin Bet announced on Wednesday.
Not all Palestinian officials are denying a report from earlier this week that Palestinian Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will resign his post in the next two months because of fatigue.
Israel welcomed Tuesday's long-awaited announcement to release Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard after serving 30 years of a life sentence, including a number of years in solitary confinement.
If you dig in Jerusalem, you never know what you might find. One family recently discovered an important treasure from the time of Jesus under their living room floor.